TELEGRAPHIC BTIEF5
Harry K Tb»w'i trial baa bren post
poued to J~.uo.ry Cth.
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Mrs Mary Walkup. of Apacba, Ok.,
fell dead, while waltzing.
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Cody, Wyoming, bus Just suffered a
fire loss of fSj.Oou. Stveu blocks wt rs 1
burned.
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The French government has decora*
led l>i Mai v laker 0. Kddy as Offl
cer d' Acadt tnie."
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Webster Davis, formerly nss atant
vecrrtury of state, and mayor of Kan-
sas City, has located at St Louis.
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A demand will be made of Congress
lo prohibit liquor In the District of
Columbia by the Anti Saloon League.
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Three Insurance companies have
been denied license to do business in
California, for transferring from the
■late to the federal courts suits for
losses by fire.
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The mother of Secretary Taft has
been III at her home at Millbury,
Maas, and her sickness lately took,
a serious turn. Mr. Tuft la eu route
home from Europe.
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The Sunday eliding movement at
Chicago bus extended to the suburbs.
Arrests are being made every Monday
morning, and the Law and Order
League Is active.
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The resumption of Improvement and
extension work on the Union Pacific,
Involving millions of money and em-
ploying thousands of men, is pointed
to aa proof that the stringency is over.
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A recent session of the Russian
Delimit broke up In a riot caused by
the attack of a constitutional democrat
on the government. The row forced an
adjournment.
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The tunnel under the East river to
Brooklyn will bo opened In January,
and a little luter will come the open-
ing of the railroad tunnel under the
Hudson to Jersey City,
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A large petition has been presented
to the German government to provide
for separating sober and drunken peo-
ple on the cars by providing separate
apartments. A “Jim Crow” law against
the tipplers.
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David Ranken of St, Louis, has en-
dowed a school of mechanleal trades
for poor boys with $2,000,000 of real
estate. He Is a bachelor 70 years of
ags. Other endowments of the school
will probably be made by him.
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The Secretary of the Navy In his
aanual report, continues the polite
fiction that the American fleet is to
be sent to the Pacific purely as a prac-
tice cruise. The report does not say
what nation Is to be practiced on.
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The new “pay-as-you-enter” street
cars have been Installed In Chlengo.
They are designed to prevent over
crowding and to insure the collection
•f all fares. The first day's • trial was
■atlstactory.
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Ambassador Aoki of Japan has been
recalled by his government. The reason
made public Is that the home govern-
ment desires information regarding
the Immigration situation here. Sev-
eral of the Eastern papers take a dif-
ferent view, assorting that the recall
of Mr. Aokl Is due to the fact that he
has been too friendly to the Washing-
ton government.
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The Chicago and Alton will not al-
low passengers to enter its ears with-
out showing tickets. This Is a new
rule, brought forth by the fact that
30 per cent of the fares have been ivaid
on the train.
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According to an opinion of Attorney
General Hadley of Missouri, intemr-
bnn railroads are under the supervis-
ion of the State railroad commission
the same ns steam roads, and will
have to file their reports.
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The grand jury of St Louis makes
wholesale condemnation of the House
of Delegates of that city in Its report
to the court. It asserts that “It is a
menace to decency, order and good
government and Is a disgrace to the
citizenship of St. Louis.” Those mem-
bers who are respectable and try to
do the fair thing, nre subject to the
jibes, taunts and billingsgate of tho
combine, and aro helpless to accom-
plish anything.
Prof. R. L. Robinson, head of the
Gray Herbarium at Cambridge, Mass.,
has horn made glad by the news that
the herbarium will bo the chief bene-
ficiary of a fund of $180,000 left to
Harvard by the will of Mrs. Potter of
Beaton. ,    |
PtmMmTs Message.
(Concluded.)
The Inland waterways which He Just
buck of the whole eastern and south-
ern coasts should likewise be deveioft-
cd. Moreover, the development of our
waterways involves many other im-
portant water problems, all of which
should be considered aa pa it of the
same general scheme. The government
dams should be used to produce hun-
dreds of thousands of horsepower as
an incident to improving navigation;
for the annual value of the unused
water tamer oftbe United States per
water power of the United States |ier-
haps exceed* the annual value of the
products of all our m non.
As au incident to creating the deep
waterway down the Mississippi, the
government should build along its
whole lower length levees which taken
together with the control of the head-
waters, will at once and forever put a
complete stop to all threats of floods
in the Immensely fertile delta region.
The territory lying adjacent to the
M sslsslppl along Its lower course will
thereby become one of the mose pros-
perous and |H)pulous. as it already is
one of the most fertile, farming re-
gions In all the world. I have appoint-
ed an Inland waterways commission
to study and outline a comprehensive
scheme of development along all the
lines indicated. Later I shall lay It*
rejiort before the Congress.
IRRIGATION
Irrigation should be far more exten-
sively developed than at present, not
only in the states of the great plaint
and the Rocky mountains, but In
many others, as, for instance, in
large portions of the South Atlantic
and Gulf states, where It should go
band in hand with the reclamation of
swamp land. The Federal government
should seriously devote itself to this
task, realizing that utilization of
waterways and water power, forestry,
irrigation and the reclamation of
lands threatened with overflow, are
all Interdependent rarts of the same
problem.
NATIONAL RESOURCES
Fully to prevent tho fraud in the
public lands which through the Joint
action of the Interior department and
the Department of Justice we have
been endeavoring to prevent, there
must be further legislation, and espec-
ially a sufficient appropriation to per-
mit the Department of the Interior to
examine certain classes of entries on
the ground before they pass Into pri-
vate ownership.
The government should part with
its title only to the actual homemaker,
not to the profit maker who does not
care to make n home. Our prime ob-
ject Is to secure the rights and guard
the Interests of the small ranchman,
the man who plows and pitches hay
for himself. It is this small ranchman,
th s actual settler and homemaker,
who in the long run Is most hurt by
permitting thefts of the public land
In w hatever form.
Optimism is a good characteristic,
but if carried to an excess it becomet
foolishness. We are prone to speak of
the resources of this country as in ex-
haustible; this Is not so. The mineral
wealth of the country, the coal, Iron,
oil, gas, and the like does not repro-
duce itself, and therefore is certain to
he exhausted ultimately; and waste-
fulness in dealing with it to-day means
that our descendants will feel the ex-
haustion a generation or two before
they otherwise would. But there are
certain other form’s of waste which
could he entirely stopped—the waste
of soil by washing, for instance, which
is among the most dangerous of til
wastes now in progress in the United
States, 4s easily preventable, so that
tills' present enormous loss of fertility
is entirely unnecesary. The preserva-
tion or replacement of the forests is
one of the most important means of
loss We have made a beginning in
forest preservation, but it is only a
bog lining. At present lumbering is the
fourth greatest industry in the United
States; and yet. so rapid 1ms been the
rate of exhaustion of timber in the
United States in the past, and so rap-
idly is the remainder being exhausted,
that the country s unquestionably on
the verge of a limber famine which
will be felt In every household In the
land. There 1ms already been a rise in
the price of lumber, but there Is cer-
tain to be a more rapid and heavier
rise. In the future.
The present annual consumption
of lumber is certainly three times as
grent as the annual growth; and If
the consumption and growth continue
unchanged, practically all our lumber
will be exhausted In another genera-
tion; while long before the limit to
complete exhaustion Is reached the
growing soarcity will make Itself felt
in many blighting waya upon our nat-
ional welfare. About 20 per cent of oar
forested territory Is now ^reserved In
•at onal forests; bat these do not In-
clude the most valuable timber lands
and in any eveat the proportion is to
■mall to expect that the reservo can
sreonipllsh more than a mitigation of
the trouble which la ahead for tbs
nation.
Far more drastic acton is needed.
POSTAL SAVINGS RANK
A postal bank and a parcel post are
recommended, and It Is pointed out
that no action haa been taken which
would not work to the benefit of the
country store and the farmer.
As to the Pres dential camt>algns,
the President directs the attention of
Congress suggesting that it might be
advisable to approprate a certain
amount for each of the big parties,
which. If accepted, would limit the
amount of private contributions from
any one |>eraon or concern.
A national gallery of art is recom-
mended and It la asked that the tariff
be taken from art objects e
Mr Roosevelt suggests that the army
and navy be treated better; that bet-
ter pay be given officers and men and
that the government continue to bet-
ter the efficiency of the army and of
the navy In every way.
He reports a most satisfactory con-
dition In the Canal zone, all work pro-
gressing nicely.
The National Dank of Commerca of
Kansas City failed to make a state-
ment ns called for by the Comptroller,
and on Thursday, Dec. 5th a notice
was posted on the door that the Comp-
troller had taken charge. This la one
of the largest banking houses in the
Southwest, with many millions of de-
posits. At this writing the books
are being checked and assets sched-
uled.
Later.—The deposits Dec. 3, 1907,
ware $1C,942,C94; Aug. 22. 1907, $35,-
420,811; Nov. 12, 1906, $34,132,220.
Following Is the condition as shown
by the books of the bank.
Resources. —Loans and discounts,
$12,898,056.06; real estate, $697,542.07;
five per cent redemption fund, $50,-
000.00; cash and sight Ex., $5,343,460.-
10; U. S. bonds, par, $1,280,000.00;
other high-grade bonds, $4,006,771 03;
total liabilities, $24,276,429.26
Liabilities. —Capital stock, $1,000,-
000.00; surplus and undivided profits,
$1,639,734.57; circulation account, $1,-
000,000.00; due depositors, $16,942,694.-
69; clearing house certificates, 3,694,-
000.00; total liabilities, $24,276,429.26.
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Annie M. Bradley was acquitted of
the charge of murdering ex-8enator
Brown of Utah at Washington. The
verdict of the Jury was received with
breathless attention, followed by ap-
plause. Mrs. Bradley shot ex-Senator
Brown to death December 8, of last
year in the Raleigh hotel, In Wiashing-
ton, where Brown had gone to appear
before the United States Supreme
court. Her defense was insanity and
she did not know that she had shot
him or what she was do'ng at the
time. Appeal was really made to the
compassion of the jury and the fact
that Mrs. Bradley was the mother of
two children by Brown was brought
out together with Mrs. Bradley’s ap-
peal to Brown to marry her and give
a name to the children. This Brown
refused to do, although the lettersread
in cqurt showed that he had promised
to do so many times. When he was
killed he was engaged to marry Mrs.
Anna Adams, mother of Maude Adams,
the actress The prosecution brought
out how Mrs. Bradley had begged
Brown to get a divorce from his wife
and marry her.
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Representative Reeder of Kansas
purposes to end stock gambling by
sending those who buy and sell secur-
ities on margin to Jail. He has Intro-
duced n bill in the House which, if
passed, would put every bucketshop
and many brokers out of business Its
title Is “A Bill to Prevent Short Sales
of Stock.” It declares unlawful any
sale of stock in which there Is not a
transfer of the certificate and provides
that a violation of the law shall be
punishable by a fine of not less than
$500 nor more than $1,000 and by im-
prison ment of not less than one year
nor more than five years. These penal-
ties are to be imposed upon both the
seller and the buyer. In case a corpora-
t:on violates the law its executive of-
ficers and brtnrd of directors shall be
indicted. The bill applies to the stock
of hanks and all corporations doing
interstate business. Representative
Reeder said that he Introduced his
bill because he believed the present
financial stringency was due almost
entirely to stock gambling In New
York.
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Allens are returning from this conn-
thy to Europe In large numbers, M
many as 12,000 In one week. The finan-
cial stringency here and the demand
tor labor In Europe, Is given as the
sense.
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